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“Utah SB194 aims to strengthen the election process and increase public trust”

 Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem, Slate, Nov. 18, 2025 (with Matthew Cooke) The Supreme Court Just...

Bob Bauer at Executive Functions: “Trump’s Coming Confrontation with the Courts Over the Elections”

In Bauer’s estimation, “When, in a major defeat for the president, the Court struck down tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers...

Arizona: “Capitol roundup: Republicans target voting centers”

 Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem, Slate, Nov. 18, 2025 (with Matthew Cooke) The Supreme Court Just...

Virginia: “Registrars forge ahead with early voting preparations as redistricting court cases loom “

Elizabeth Beyer at Cardinal News on impacts of uncertainty on local election officials coping with re-redistricting referendum in Virginia: The General Assembly last week...

“Justice Department Sues 5 States, Most Republican-Led, for Voter Data”

N.Y. Times: The Trump administration on Thursday sued five states for voter data, including three governed by Republicans, some of the first red states...

“Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout”

More on the potential impact of Callais. Bolts reports: Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having...

“Three previously unknown donors gave $26 million to Trump-aligned dark money group”

New Issue One Report: An Issue One examination of tax filings has revealed three previously unknown donors who gave more than $26 million to Securing American...

“State election chiefs are huddling to plan responses to Trump’s expected interference in midterms”

Democracy Docket: By phone, over Zoom and in person at a recent Washington, D.C. conference, Democratic state election chiefs have for months been meeting...

“Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency”

The Washington Post is running an “exclusive” story about an effort to get Trump to sign an executive order that would “ban mail...

“How can the Supreme Court protect electoral integrity?”

A new Justice, Democracy, and Law column for SCOTUSblog. This piece builds upon, and weaves together, recent contributions by Derek Muller, Bob Bauer,...

What Are the Likely Partisan Effects from a Pro-Party Supreme Court Decision in NRSC v. FEC?

I’ve been asked this question a lot by journalists and others, so I thought I’d post my answer. As this recent story from the...

“Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding”

David Gans of the Constitutional Accountability Center has posted his draft on SSRN, forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. Here is the abstract:...

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